To the Honorable Senate, & House of Representatives of the United States.
The undersigned Citizens of Washington & Athens Counties, Ohio; hereby petition your Honorable Body, for the following alteration in the mail rout between Athens, in Athens Counties & Harmar in Washington County viz: Vacate so much of said ^mail^ rout as lies between Federalton & Constitution Post Offices, & establish a new mail rout between said offices, on the Free Turnpike road leading from the mouth of Federal Creek in Athens County to Bailey’s Ferry in Washington County, & establish on said new rout the following Post offices, & appoint the herein after named persons, Post Master viz: Decatur, in Decatur Township, Philip Shrader Jr Post Master. Veto, ^in^ North Belpre, Daniel Shaw Post Master. ^&^ Glendale, Warren Township, Abisha Cole, Post Master. And, also extend the mail rout between Harmar & Gallopolis, from Coolville, where it now intersects the first above named mail rout, to the said Constitution office.
John Clark John Wallace Jasper Needham Jr
Miller Clark Asahel Hollister Archel Murphy
Daniel Shaw D. H. Cochran
John Tilton Owens Patten Edward McLarly
John Ellenwood Seymour Clough John Reid
Joseph Tilton T. J Hollister Samuel Ellenwood
Freeman Hopkins Milton Sherwood Joseph S Dilley
A. P. Barrow Elisha Smith S. R. [Smith?]
Daniel Ellenwood John. C. Rathbun Jonathan Blough
Abisha Cole Wm Rathbun I Rufus Blough
R. D. Hollister John G Dilley
John Wilhelm John Coler Edward [?]
Aaron
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Henington
G. H. Thompson Isaiah Clark
Jasper Needham Abraham [?]

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H M [Clark?]
Augustus Ellenwood Joseph W [?]
40 Wm Chealiar N. K. Thompson
41 Charles Morris A P. Delano. L. K. Swan
42 C. R. Brewer Garret Nelson Joel Dodge
43 E. Bailey Lewis Delano Willard Green
44 J Evans Levi Swan
45 W M Mies Henry Swan
46 Thomas A Hill S. D. Ellenwood
47 Borden Stanton [D?]. Bickford
48 Isaac Thomas Charles Ellenwood.
49 Wm Lewis Benjamin T Bickford
50 Parker Lewis
51 John Oakley Isaac Bickford
52 D H Loring S B Swan
Ervin Bickford
53 Eli Rosecrns Thos B Shipley
54 Joline Hopkins
55 John [Wives?] Wm Hararper
56
57 Richard Nelson Rubin Finch
58 Felix Halin John Bickford
59 Neil [Laynachan?] Ws Cutler
60 Bial [Stevenson?]
61 James Dunbar Jesse Wilson
62 Thos J Kirkpatrick Melvin L Cole
63 [L?] Cutler
64 [?] Cox Samuel Goodwin
65 S S Bryan
66 Danil Goss Malaki Cole
67 O. L. Clarke
68 Joseph Sibbley Zachariah [K Bokeck?]
69 Thomas. B. Hibbard AB Dickey
701 Wm B. Harrison John Willis
71 W S. Rollins M. Morrison
72 E. C. Dustan Wm Calder
73 Richd Cherry W. D. Bailey
74 John Potter Dean Briggs
75 A Winchester
76 James Colville Alex McTaggart
1“60” changed to “70”

Handwritten Document Signed, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NAB,